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Whilst watching an informative documentary on Professor (Sir) Anthony Blunt – the Surveyor of Her Majesty’s Pictures who was discovered to be a Russian spy – over the Easter weekend, I learned a little more about his career, such as his secret mission to Germany after their surrender. I didn’t learn anything any possible connection to James Bl(o)unt or to Elizabeth Blount, Henry VIII‘s mistress but the art expert was sixth cousin once removed to his employer.

We can start with Anthony‘s descent, which has a lot of gaps on Genealogics compared even to his sourced Wikipedia page. It does, however, mention Sir John Parker Mosley Baronet, whose other descendants include the subsequent Mosley baronets and Max, who liked German things like uniforms, as well as a few Wedgwoods and the Bowes-Lyons inter alia, proving the genealogical point the programme made.

How much further back need we go to find a royal common ancestor for Professor Blunt and Elizabeth II? Sadly, since Genealogics only fits eight generations to a page instead of twelve, it is slightly too difficult to go back far enough without a further, comparable source.

By Super Blue